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Dostoyevsky ’58: Richard Brooks’s Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir
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Matthew Sorrento’s (re)consideration of Richard Brooks’s
The Brothers Karamazov
(1958) focuses on noir style as it energises an adaptation of one of the most page-bound of nineteenth-century novels. While critical commentary has largely dismissed the film as tamed by the Hollywood assembly line, Sorrento illustrates noir visuals and framing open up the screenplay’s chamber-drama treatment.
Title: Dostoyevsky ’58: Richard Brooks’s Brothers Karamazov as Baroque Noir
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Matthew Sorrento’s (re)consideration of Richard Brooks’s
The Brothers Karamazov
(1958) focuses on noir style as it energises an adaptation of one of the most page-bound of nineteenth-century novels.
While critical commentary has largely dismissed the film as tamed by the Hollywood assembly line, Sorrento illustrates noir visuals and framing open up the screenplay’s chamber-drama treatment.
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